Freedom is not something that one people can bestow on another as a gift. Thy claim it as their own and none can keep it from them.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

We face neither East nor West: we face forward.

A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.

The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.